Panning shots - tutorial

I think that rear curtain on panning shots does not work? If you use read curtain you get the motion effect with slow shutter speeds

I think that rear curtain on panning shots does not work? If you use read curtain you get the motion effect with slow shutter speeds

Use a smaller aperture, to increase DoF, and continuous autofocus... The smaller aperture will also require a long shutter opening, to get a reasonable background exposure, and increase the amount of trailing blur... then, trip the shutter a bit before the subject in in the best position...

Takes some practice, but its not difficult...

 

Hello and thanks for the comment, Maybe I´m not 100% clear.

 

I´m looking for long exposures with rear curtain as described in Alex Mustard book, chapter "Panning and Spins".

I want the subject to be frozen by the strobes with the blur going to the opposite direction of the subject.

But I have failing miserably on the focusing part.

 

Kind regards,

Joss

Slow exposure camera still rear curtain

Pans and spins slow exposure camera moving front curtain

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to make it clear if you use rear curtain and pan you don't get anything that is not blurred

This is because the beginning of the pan is not sharp as the flash is not firing and at the end of the exposure when it fires you are still moving

Using front curtain that is the correct procedure you start your shot with whatever is the subject frozen by the strobes and add the trail lines with the camera movement

If instead the camera is still front curtain will make it look like the fish is moving backwards hence you use rear curtain when you are still